Embarassed of my hairy chin!!!!

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Sounds vain and I know my life has many real things to worry about but I am so embarassed of my hairy chin.

Since having children hairs have appeared on the left and right side, two small areas each side of my chin. I did get electrolysis for awhile but it did nothing. Since then I have to pluck them out daily!!! If I was stranded on an island without a tweezers I would be found with a beard!!!

Why has this happened to me???

The hairs are dark and spiky when they grow back so I make sure I pluck them out as soon as I feel them coming. Because of all this plucking I constantly have spots of my chin.

Its awful and although I can laugh about it, it is really getting me down. It makes me feel horrible. I get all stress if I cant find my tweezers and every day at least four times a day I am in the bathroom plucking away.

What can I do?

My partner does not know and I have spoke to no-one because I am ashamed. He would be shocked!

go to the doctors, i am sure they will be able to help

It might be hormonal is it a lot? or just a few stray hairs? I'm getting hairer as I get older. Now I have about 4 or 5 really dark and thick hairs I have to pluck on my face.

Hello

Been to doctors and he said he could give a cream.

I have not tried it yet, dont really want to put a load of chemicals on my face and I cant imagine it working. If it did then everyone would know about it.

There are more than a few hairs there are two small areas each side of chin that I left alone would be disgusting!

You should ask your gp for a hormone test.

Really?

What are hormone tests?

Do they test to see if you have the right level of female hormones?

If you dont do they give you medication?

Homone tests are blood tests which measure the amount of different hormones in your system.

Quite often, extra hair is attributed to an overload of the male sex hormone, testosterone. You can be given treatments to rebalance your hormones

Yes, I had one done when I was feeling a bit rough. Turns out I was low on oestrogen(sp?), and the 'male' hormone was starting to dominate.
Now I'm menopausal and I'm not 40 yet. When I was pregnant and flooded with oestrogen I wasn't hairy at all. I'm usually like a monkey.

...if hormone imbalance is actually what you have.

thanks - my gp who i spoke to about this is away until tues now so i will call then. not sure why he didnt suggest that when i went

so has anyone been given treatments to rebalance out hormones?

i used acupunture

Did acupunture work?

I would rather try alternative remedies before medication.

thanks

i always worry about being stranded without tweezers. i have about 30 pairs, anyone know how to get them sharpened without sending them to the states? {tweezerman} or cheap good ones.

BT, the acupunture worked well for me.

i have so much hair on my chin that i use DPS electric razor , ive twice been scanned for PCOS. I just thought i was unlucky, ive been like this for - oooh ten years, worse lately.

hi-fi, you can get carbon stones, i used to use tweezers for my work and had to sharpen them to ridiculously sharp and fine edged. You could try knife sharpeners but they might be a bit coarse - ours was called "Dan" rock hard arkansaw rock i guess you can google.

thanks lem, that should keep me busy for may.

the carbon stones are called dan?or the knife sharpeners?

I'm really hairy all over, now getting more on chin, hate that bit when you can see the hair but too shot to pluck, no answers, juist sympathy

What about laser treatment?

there's no solid way of getting rid of facial hair. i was going to try laser but have read some bad reports recently. there must be a solution, or anyone coming up with on will be loaded if successful.
balding men want extra, furballs like me want less, there must be an exchange somewhere.

I have a full beard and moustache that I have waxed away - I find it's the quickest and easiest way to do it, although it only lasts for a month or so. My dh is fully aware of it ... it would be hard for him not to be, and it's that which worries me about your post. To be honest, you sound as if you are rather obsessive about the hair - if you are constantly plucking and panicking if you can't find your tweezers then that anxiety is what you should be addressing, and the GP can help you with that.

It could be hormones or PCOS, but it is just as likely to be your age - and there isn't much they can do medically about that! It's nothing to be ashamed of - there are lots of hairy women out there.

Depilatory creams are quick and easy to use, waxing or threading are quick but better done by a professional. But I think you need to address your anxiety at the same time.